Quotes

With solitude comes freedom.

— Amy Cavanaugh

People happy in love have an air of intensity

— Stendhal

'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival

— Al Purdy

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil

— Henry Miller

Math is a faith of believing something can be deduced from reality to idea and then back to reality.

— Gabriel Pinatacan

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech

— Henry David Thoreau

I think it better that in times like these a poets mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right

— William Butler Yeats

Love is done when Love's begun,
Sages say,
But have Sages known?
Truth adjourn your Boon
Without Day.

— Emily Dickinson

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers

— Robert Wyatt

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers

— George Orwell

“I wonder how they found their soulmates
From among a crowd so big
In a world so wide”

— Vishü Rita Krocha

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may

— Charlotte Bronte

People love the beads. Everyone really loves to catch them

— Jerry Maher

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum

— Jean Giraudoux

Frost is the most sophisticated of poets

— Peter Davison

Mathematics is in irony. It simplifies things in a very complicated way.

— Gabriel Pinatacan

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash

— Anthony Hopkins

I wanted to be successful, not famous

— George Harrison

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top

— William Butler Yeats

If ever my hand will raise to your face, it would be just to wipe your tears.

— Miraj Patel

Truth often lies in those words we quickly say... Or in those we hold inside forever ...

— Laura Mercurio Ebohon aka Laura LME

"I'll spend my whole life pleasing people."

— Ely Penn

"The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.

— Aberjhani

The American Poet Who Went Home Again (2009)

' Suspicion Inquiring minded questions that eradicate freely out of your mouth.'

— Anna Lovering

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In una dittatura devi stare attento a quello che dici.
In una democrazia puoi dire quello che vuoi...
l'importante è che non cerchi di dimostrarlo.

[English Translation]

— Dario de Judicibus

A threat against the environment is a menace to the human nature.

— April Mae Berza

"Fiction is my natural skin, even you strip my skin you can never take it away from me."

— Ely Penn

And all we feared inside the night
shows true in morning's biased light.

— Garth von Buchholz

Industry in Morning (poem)

If I'd ever grown prosperous like Sahjahan was, I'd not have waited for my beloved's death before I erected a Taj Mahal.

— Suman Pokhrel

Lies as truth, in eyes truth is lie

"Poetry is not just a combination of suprising phrases or words, It is the combination of our emotions and feelings with words."

— Nikhil Jain

Passion has nothing to do with it. I’m a perfectionist, and it’s easier to get 5 words exactly right and in the right order than 5,000.

— Benjamin C. Krause

"Minimalism, Thy Name is Benjamin C. Krause," interview by Rumjhum Biswas on Every Day Fiction

Never believe one at the only hand...but only infer one's reality
... having the open gesture.

— SIR RAM

I recall you with pride in my eyes and I remember days in our prime
When we sought to find, our smiles from hidden places
Like treasures mounted somewhere.

— Vishü Rita Krocha

I recall you with pride in my eyes and I remember days in our prime
When we sought to find, our smiles from hidden places
Like treasures mounted somewhere.

— Vishü Rita Krocha

I enjoy the satisfaction I get when people read and enjoy my poems or stories. I like to know that I’ve struck a chord with someone.

— Benjamin C. Krause

Leaf Garden Magazine, Issue 9

Poetry is a combination of images and music written in words.

— Suman Pokhrel

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

— Ingrid Bergman

A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.

— Cyrano de Bergerac

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

— Rupert Brooke

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

— Thomas Carlyle

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

— Stendhal

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

— Honore de Balzac

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

— C. S. Lewis

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

— Julie Andrews

All mankind love a lover.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

— Andre Breton

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

— William Shakespeare

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

— Plato

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

— Rita Rudner

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

— Lao Tzu

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

— Richard Bach

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

— Samuel Lover

Do all things with love.

— Og Mandino

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